[AG-TECH] Sharing Handwritten Presentation Slides on AG ?

daagarwal DAAgarwal at lbl.gov
Tue Aug 19 14:43:26 CDT 2003


I want to start with trying using one of the shared whiteboards
I am using the NEC tablet as my laptop to test this capability
handwriting on the tablet is pretty natural

Deb

Robert Olson wrote:

> do you have a way to share these in realtime?
> 
> does it work well?
> 
> --bob
> 
> At 12:25 PM 8/19/2003 -0700, daagarwal wrote:
> 
>> Cindy,
>> have yon considered having your instructor use a tablet PC
>> for real time handwritten notes and equations?  I am experimenting
>> with one now. It seems good for on-the-fly handwritten equations
>> and notes.
>> Deb
>>
>> Cindy Sievers wrote:
>>
>>> The camera has a zoom feature that would allow for a smaller font, 
>>> but then you would need to make your document size smaller.  We 
>>> mostly use it for handwritten notes - I make the instructor use a 
>>> fairly wide pen and it works ok.  He needed some way to write long 
>>> equations out for students to see, it is supplemented with a power 
>>> point slide set from another video source.
>>> I was using a Hauppauge video card, but I just switched to a winnov 
>>> videum.
>>> At 10:42 AM 8/19/2003 -0400, William D. Hamblen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Cindy Sievers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > We use a document camera (Canon Visualizer RE-450X) as one of the 
>>>> video
>>>> > inputs.  The speaker/instructor can write slides, notes, etc  and 
>>>> it is
>>>> > transmitted as just another video stream.
>>>>
>>>> We have a document camera too but I haven't yet gotten around to trying
>>>> what you described.  Is the quality good enough for, say, 10 or 12 
>>>> point
>>>> type?  What resolution does your video capture card run at?
>>>>
>>>>  - Bill
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> William D. Hamblen           email: william.d.hamblen at dartmouth.edu
>>>> UNIX Systems Specialist      phone: (603) 646-1303
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>>>
>>>
>>> ============================================
>>> Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
>>> sievers at lanl.gov        Group CCS-1 MS B287
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